PSA: Wasted $60 on a creative writing prompt book off Amazon that was total garbage

I bought this book called "500 Fantasy Writing Prompts" off Amazon last month hoping it would kickstart my writing... turned out to be just a list of one-liners like 'a dragon guards a tower' with zero depth or guidance. No examples, no character ideas, no world-building tips, just shallow sentences printed big on each page. I flipped through the whole thing in ten minutes and felt ripped off because I could have gotten better stuff for free on Reddit or Pinterest. Lost $60 on that thing and now it sits on my shelf making me mad every time I see it. Has anyone else bought those prompt books online and found them completely useless compared to what you find here in this community?

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the_kevin12d ago

My buddy Marcus bought a book called "1000 Horror Story Starters" off a Facebook ad last year. It was literally just "The door creaked open" printed a thousand different ways, like "The red door creaked open" and "The old door creaked open." He opened it in the store, saw five pages, and realized the whole thing was padded with blank pages and huge font sizes to make it look thicker.